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Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa. AGRA, formerly known as the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa is an African-led African-based organization that seeks to catalyse Agriculture Transformation in Africa. AGRA is focused on putting smallholder farmers at the centre of the continent's growing economy by transforming agriculture from ...
This is a list of domestic and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) operating in Kenya. [ 1 ] This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Website. oneacrefund.org. One Acre Fund is a social enterprise that supplies smallholder farmers in East Africa with asset-based financing and agriculture training services to reduce hunger and poverty. Headquartered in Kakamega, Kenya, the organization works with farmers in rural villages throughout Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda ...
The African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services ( AFAAS ), is an African organization for strengthening Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services (AEAS) in Africa. It operates within the framework of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), a venture of the African Union in the New Partnership for Africa's ...
Its members include the Irish farm advisory service Teagasc, the Irish Department of Agriculture, Irish Farmers Association and other NGOs. [51] A subsidiary of Self Help Africa, Partner Africa based in Nairobi, Kenya, [41] was established in 2012 to support ethical and socially responsible business practice. [citation needed]
Farm Africa is a UK -based charitable organization set up in 1985 that works with farmers, pastoralists and forest communities in eastern Africa. The charity promotes sustainable agricultural practices, strengthens markets and protects the environment in rural Africa. Farm Africa has offices in the United Kingdom, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia and ...
The tea industry [2] in Kenya is broken down broadly into policy, production, regulatory & research and trade & promotions. The main players are the Government of Kenya through the Ministry of Agriculture, Tea Board of Kenya, [3] Tea Research Foundation [4] Kenya Tea Development Agency (Holdings) Limited, [5] Kenya Tea Growers Association, Nyayo Tea Zone Development Corporation [6] and East ...
Agriculture in Kenya. Potatoes harvested from a Kenyan farm. Agriculture in Kenya dominates Kenya's economy. 15–17 percent of Kenya's total land area has sufficient fertility and rainfall to be farmed, and 7–8 percent can be classified as first-class land. [1][2] In 2006, almost 75 percent of working Kenyans made their living by farming ...